Physics 501: Mathematical Physics I

  Lectures:     Disque 919, TuTh 9:30-10:50 am
  Office:       Disque 815
  Phone:        (215) 895-2709
  e-mail:       steve (at) physics.drexel.edu

• Course overview
  
  The goal of this course is the application of classical analytical methods to problems drawn from physics and elsewhere. Emphasis will be placed on application of the methods studied to partial and ordinary differential equations and to Fourier and other special function expansions. Limited computational examples will be included, although this course will not be specifically aimed at computional techniques.

• Course syllabus

• 2018 lecture schedule (detailed course outline) 

• Handy reference: Abramowitz and Stegun, Handbook of Mathematical Functions, online version

• Lecture 4 notes

  • Here are the first few Bessel functions (and here is a Python script to draw them).
  • Here are the first few Legendre polynomials (and here is a Python script to draw them).
  • Here are the first few Legendre functions (and here is a Python script to draw them).
  • Slides used in class

• Lecture 5 slide

• Spherical Harmonics and Coulomb Integrals

• Homeworks

  • Homework #1   (solutions)
  • Homework #2   (solutions)
  • Homework #3   (solutions)   (script to solve Problem 3.3)
  • Homework #4   (solutions)
  • Homework #5   (solutions)
  • Homework #6   (solutions)